The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28
(From Mondays Daily Free Press

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(From Mondays Daily Free PressJ
There are at present six prisoners in
the county jail, five men and one woman
DIR. Talmage's sermon preached
Yesterday and printed in full in to-day s
paper is extremely interesting. Read it.
A five months old babe, the child OF
Chas. Johnson, who lives on Rock
street, died yesterday morning and was
buried this afternoon.
Fowler 4 Warrington's Skipped by
the Light of the Moon," which has been
playing at st. Paul and Minneapolis the
past two weeks, will appear at the Man
kato Opera House Nov. 18th.
-Messrs. Can. Piper and Asa Graves
have rented the Holbrook barn on Jack
son street, and will bring IN a number OF
imported horses which will be offered
for sale. Some of the horses are to be
brought from Mr.. Piper's farm immedi-
ately.
There is Il great scarcity of water in
this section of the State. Wells on the
prairie and in the woods that never be-
fore gave out are now dry. Unless
there is a heavy rain before II permanent
freeze-up occurs, there will be consider
able hardship experienced by farmers
who have stock.
Marriage licenses were granted SAT-
urday TO John Zimmerman, of Ramsey
county, and Ernestina b. Vogel, and
Elias Curtis, of Kossuth county, Iowa,
and Mrs. Permatin l.. Mills, a widow liv-
ing near Garden City. To-day one was
granted to John Lorenz and Anna M.
Mahowald.
Miner Porter, Esq, has leased the
Meagher room, formerly occupied by
the postofiice. and will open restaurant
therein about the 10th of November. 1t
is a splendid location, and Mr.. Porter
ought TO do well.
A twelve-year-old son of the late
Chas Loettler, who was killed few days
ago 10y being run over by wagon, died
yesterday at his home in Eagle Lake of
typhoid fever. He caught cold while
attending his fathers funeral and 1t
turned into the fever of which he died.
The funeral will occur tomorrow.
MIR. Henry Hillesheim planted a
four acre tract IN the northeastern por-
ton of the city to potatoes last spring
and the yield was 900 bushels, which
he disposed of at prices ranging from %
to 5S cents per bushel. This land was
swampy when he purchased it, but by Il
judicious use of drain tile he has made
it an excellent piece of garden land. At
this rate the land about pays for itself in
one year. Other large yields are also
reported. Blue Earth county cannot be |
beaten when it comes down to the cap
acity of the soil.
The question of constructing and
maintaining hospital in this city has
been agltated from time to time Tor a
number of years, but not until now has
the matter taken definite shape. The |
proposition submitted to the Board OF
Trade should receive careful attention,
and if il should be found to be as favor
able us it appears at first glance the OPP
portunity should not be lost through a
lack of liberaiity on the part of the city.
Mankato will soon require hospital
and if this plan fails 1t will be necessary
TO erect one al the cIty's cost and main
tain il at considerable expense. The |
citys interest should lie properly pro- |
tected before any grant is made and an
agreement in regard to the cost of caring
for the clty's sick should be arrived at.
This applies also to the county.
Professor Foster, the weather
prophet of Burlington, is out with his
predictions for November, which are
about as near what that month generally
devclOpes as any body with q good
memory could have described. "At this
distance SAYS the Professor, "Novem-
Der looks like mad bovine. Heavy,
perhaps destructive storms near the 4th,
10th and Dist, with several minor dis
turbances at other times within the
month. This month, as rule, has no
very bright reputation as to weather
making, and now seems clothed in It's
best armor for an unusual "spell' OF
weather. 1t can do no harm to be pre-
pared, and we advise all to get Winters
wood and coel stored away before the
Sd of next month. If we should be mis-
taken about this matter, as we some
times are, no one will lose by having
taken our advice. The weather of that
month does not look pretty" from our
standpoint, and we feel 'shaky' about
it. Between the 10Th of October and
November Sd we expect two or three
little storms with several days of good
weather. Make hay while the sun
| Shines